Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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